Anderson East Quotes

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

… it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this thing and poke it and see how it reacts. In astronomy, we can't do that. The stars, the planets, the galaxies, are so far away that we just look at them, and we have to learn things by looking at them.

I don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.

The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.